The History Of The Apron

This reminds me of grandma!

Remember making an apron in Home Ec?

The History of 'APRONS' I don't think our
children know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to
protect the dress underneath, because she only
had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than
dresses and they used less material, but along
with that, it served as a potholder for removing
hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and
on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty
ears..

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for
carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-
hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal
hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold grandma
wrapped it around her arms. Those big old
aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent
over the hot wood stove..

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the
kitchen in that apron. From the garden, it carried
all sorts of vegetables.

After the peas had been shelled, it carried out
the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples
that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road,
it was surprising how much furniture that old
apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out
onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men
folks knew it was time to come in from the fields
to dinner...

It will be a long time before someone invents
something that will replace that 'old-time apron'
that served so many purposes.

They would go crazy now trying to figure out
how many germs were on that apron.

I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron.

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